"I can't calm down!! My daughter can not be bulimic! She can't be!" Ms. Misa yelled before bursting into tears. Nick had never seen someone this hysterical in his life. He patted her back while Katie brought a glass of water from the kitchen. "Look," Ms. Misa said after she calmed down. "I can't believe you without proof, so as long as you don't have any evidence, I won't believe you."

"Please listen to me! You have to trust me, Ms. Misa. Macy needs help! None of us know where she's at and she's not answering any calls or texts. You have to trust Nick and I. Please," Katie said.

Ms. Misa knew what she had to do. She was Macy's mother, but she felt like she failed. She felt like it was her fault that Macy was no where in sight and that she might be bulimic. She flipped open her cell phone and dialed the only person she knew that Macy would turn to after Stella and the Lucas Brothers. She always thought that she would never talk to him again, her ex-husband.

Macy was far away from her mom and friends, far from Horace Mantis and far from her home. She walked up the stairs of an unfamiliar apartment complex. She looked small scrap paper with Los Angeles Apartments and 4A scribbled messily onto. She looked up at the door that had 4A painted with a bright red paint that had now faded. Macy took a deep breath and knocked on the door and a couple seconds after, the door began to open.

"Listen, I don't want any of you're---Macy?? Is that you?"

"Hi Dad," Macy said slowly and watched her dad open his mouth in shock.

"M-Macy w-what are you doing here?" her dad asked still trying to believe that his only daughter was standing right in front of him.

"Can I come in? It's kind of a long story," Macy said and her dad nodded opening the door wider as Macy walked in slowly.

"Does your Mom know that you're hear?"

"Well, I think so," Macy lied.

"Macy. Tell me truth."

"Well, I kind of just left school to come her."

"What!! How did you get here" her dad asked.

"I rode the bus. It doesn't take a while to get from Arizona to LA. Well, not that long."

"I gotta call your mom," her dad said as he grabbed his phone and started to dial numbers.

"She's your mother, Macy. She has to know where you are. Look at the time!! It's already five! I bet your mom's worried sick!"

"Dad?" Macy asked trying to buy some time.

"Yah, Mace?"

"I never really got the whole story. Why did you and Mom get a divorce? I have a right to know. I mean I'm not seven anymore. Why?" Macy asked curiously.

"Look, Macy. Your mom and I decided that we weren't going to work out. It just wasn't happening, the sparks that we felt when we first met. You heard us fighting at night and we knew that broke your heart. We didn't want you to cry every night because of us. I love you, Macy. I love you so much and I know your mother loves you, too," her dad said stroking Macy's hair. "I haven't seen you in forever, Mace. It feels like a dream right now."

"I love you too!" Macy cried and hugged him tight. She wanted to remember this moment. She breathed in the smell of his cologne and tears rolled down her cheek.

"It's good to have one of those big Macy hugs. They're the best kind. Honey, have you been losing weight though? I know I haven't seen you in a while, but you look to skinny. Have you been eating enough?"

'Not this subject again,' Macy thought to herself. "Yes, I've been eating enough," Macy lied. "I'm not that skinny." "Yes you are Macy! You like your only around 90 pounds! We got to get you to eat more! You must be starving from that bus ride. I can make you a sandwich. You want one?" he asked as he dropped the phone onto the couch and made his way into the kitchen.

"No thanks. I ate before the bus ride," Macy lied.

"I'll still make some anyway. I do make a pretty yummy PB&J," he said getting the materials out on a table.

"You told my mom!! How could you, Katie!! I thought you said you weren't going to tell anyone!!!" Macy yelled as she suddenly became furious.

"I'm sorry Macy!! But it was for your own good! I don't want you to die because you were bulimic and I didn't do anything about it!" Katie exclaimed.

"Why do you have to be so nosy!! Why can't you just mind your own business!" Macy exclaimed angrily.

"Because I'm your friend, Macy! I care about you!! I don't want you to be hurt!" Katie yelled back.

"Guys. Please stop," Nick said, but no one heard or listened.

"If you really did care, you wouldn't have hugged Nick and gone out with him," Macy yelled. "That broke my heart!" she exclaimed as her lip quivered and looked away from Katie.

"Macy, you don't understand. I'm not going out with him. I don't love him like that. But right now that's not important! Macy what is important is that you're bulimic!!" Katie screamed.

"Please stop," Nick said, but no one seemed to notice. The conversation just continued on.

"What!! Macy y-you can't be bulimic!! My daughter is not bulimic!" Macy's father said shocked.

"Your daughter!! You are barely in Macy's life!" her mother exclaimed.

"Well, you never would have let me in! That's why we're divorced Mollie!!"

"It's not all my fault Mike! It's partly yours too! We decided on the divorce together!"

"I know that, but sometimes it's not about the divorce, Mollie! Why is that all you have to talk about?! The divorce this! The divorce that! I'm sick of it!"

"You started this conversation Michael! I can't believe that you-" Ms. Misa started to say.

"Please!!!" Nick hollered and everyone went quiet. "Please stop. Stop arguing. It's not the right thing to do at this moment. You should be talking to each other, not screaming and fighting. You guys are just wasting breath. I'm sorry if I offended you, Ms. And Mr. Misa. It's just I'm really sick of hearing fighting going on. If I wanted to hear yelling, I would have stayed at home and listen to my brothers fight over TV channels."

"He's right. We shouldn't be fighting. Macy, it's not true right? You're not bulimic right, Macy? You can't be bulimic," Mr. Misa said refusing to believe that his daughter was bulimic.

Macy looked at him in the eyes and looked down. "It's true, dad. I'm sorry," Macy said trying not to cry and watched her father burst into tears. Macy couldn't hold in the tears anymore. "I'm sorry daddy. I'm so sorry," Macy cried and tried to hug him, but he stepped back.

"Why? Macy, why?!"

"I'm not skinny dad! I'm huge and ugly and no one would ever want to be with me! I want to be perfect, for once in my life!"

"Macy! How could you say that about yourself! You are the most beautiful young woman I know and will ever meet!! You are only letting yourself down when you say that kind of stuff!! You're perfect to me! You're perfect to you're mom and I know that you're friends think you are perfect for who you are! Don't you dare say you're fat or ugly or that no one would want to be with you because those are all lies and you are hurting yourself when you say that. We love you, Macy and you are perfect in you're way."

"I don't want to talk about this!" Macy exclaimed tearfully. "Not around them," she said pointing to Nick and Katie.

"We should go. Thank you so much for letting Nick and I stay," Katie said after a long awkward silence. "I really am sorry, Macy. I'm sorry for everything I did wrong, but this is for your own good," Katie said and they left.

"Macy, I'm going to call Dr. Leanne. We need to make sure that you're safe," Ms. Misa said. Dr. Leanne was the Misa's family doctor, but she also was a counselor.

"You're business is my business, Macy! We're going tomorrow! Whether you like it or not," Ms. Misa replied.

Macy stared at her parents with tearful eyes and she shook her head. "I hate you!!" Macy screamed and ran up the stairs and slammed the door of her room. Macy sobbed and tried to take deep breaths in and out. She buried her face down in her pillow and cried all the tears out. If she was quiet, she could heard her parents talking about her to Dr. Leanne, but then she would just burst out into tears once again. She wobbled out of her bed and looked at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were red and puffy from all the crying and her hair was a tangled mess, but what she noticed the most was the she could see her bony little ribs if she pulled up her shirt. She couldn't believe that was her reflection staring back at her. She didn't even know who she was anymore. She fell to her knees and looked at her hands. The very hands that she used to throw up, so she could lose weight. She felt like a different person. She never yelled at her parents or her friends like she did tonight.

Tonight, changed it all.

Wow! Finally got this chapter finished! I'm pretty proud of myself, this is my longest chapter yet. I had trouble writing the end and it would be super amazing if you guys leave a review and tell me what you think. Sorry if there are any mistakes. Thank you so much guys!

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